Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Taxis These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Taxis
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Taxis It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Taxis
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Taxis Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Taxis
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Taxis May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Taxis
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Taxis Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Taxis
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Taxis It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Taxis
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Taxis The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Taxis
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Taxis If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Taxis
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Taxis "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Taxis
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Taxis Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Taxis
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Taxis You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Taxis
